Hi,

Just checked my score and this year I got 10 V 9 BS 7 PS
April '04 I got 10V 8 BS 7PS

Not sure what to do. I studied my buns off for the April test. I truly think if I took it a third time I would do the same or worse. Not sure what I should do.

Other stats:

28, married, lawyer, 3.45 cum GPA, 3.8 post-bacc GPA

I applied last year (everywhere) and got no acceptances with basically this same GPA and MCAT.

Help!!!! Only want MD, not DO.

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Did you study with the same techniques you used last year? Its a challenge to improve on 2nd mcat because its testink your critical thinking skills.

For me radically changing my approach helped. 1st time I took kaplan, this time I studied on my own with examkrackers. It made a difference for me.

I took the MCAT last August and got 11p 10b 5v.
This time I got 10p 9b 7v.

We have the same GPA, and I am also a 28 year-old postbach. I am still going to apply, and I am going to have my AMCAS & TMDSAS in by this weekend. My MCAT score is now out of my hands. Maybe my essays and unusual history will save my ass. I don't think you should retake the MCAT this August because then the schools won't get your scores until mid-October. It's so late in the year that you loose the benefit of having an early application.

Just curious for last year, what date did you have your applications completed and submitted?

-Dusty

If you decide to retake, maybe you could work less on material and more on stress reduction? I retook as well this April and didn't feel like I studied more so much as was more prepared and less nervous. More importantly, I made sure I had the best site in a 200-mile radius.

I feel like the increase in my score had a lot less to do with the extra preparation and everything to do with the confidence I got out of the change in test site (50 takers vs. 500, quiet, suburban area, huge desks and efficient proctors). I was much more relaxed and didn't rush a single section even though I do that all the time in practice.

Hit the exact same exam score this april as I did last april. I fell your pain. On the brightside, atleast we didn't go down.

In answer to your questions, last year I applied with 25 MCAT, 3.8 post-bacc (approx) 3.5 cum GPA.

I was complete approx. July 10. All secs were submitted within a week of getting them.

No interviews.

I changed my studying dramatically this time as well. In August, when I got the 25, I spent three weeks studying and I took orgo over that summer too, bad idea I know. I had a distracting test center too.

So why the heck did I get basically the same score this time?

This time I was relaxed, felt confident, had done tons of practice exams, was at an awesome test center, had a good night's sleep, and felt my brain cells were at 100% peak performance. I left the test center thinking 29.

I truly feel that I do not "get" fundamentally the MCAT's trickery. I knew that stuff cold. MY hubby quizzed me all the week before and I knew everything in the Kaplan review books.

However, when they take the simple concept of combusion, and give you a passage about the solar system, I tend to get tripped up trying to figure out what the heck they're talking about......

Hi.
I hear ya on all this nonsense. I did 250+ verbal passages and had a 8 on VR up until a week before, when finally I hit two 9s on AAMC 7 and 8. And what do i get on the real thing? An 8. Shoot me in the foot. All I wanted to do was go up in that section this time, and I got the same freakin score.

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